Confidence/ Various - Confidence Format:CD These ‘bourgeois’ societies were initiated

These ‘bourgeois’ societies were initiated by patron princes concerned with building their prestige through the arts and letters just as much as by arms

bassoons and trumpets

Hideki Nagano (piano)

at once vigorous and generous

both live and in the studio

Confidence/ Various - Confidence Format:CD These ‘bourgeois’ societies were initiatedThe French tenor Julien Behr is one of today's rising vocal stars. Voted 'Revelation artiste lyrique de l'Adami' in 2009, he has become famous for his Mozart roles. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung recently wrote of his performance as 'lively, with a fine timbre', while Forumopera added: 'Julien Behr's Fenton is superb: though the French tenor has hitherto been especially appreciated as a Mozartian, here he confirms his aptitude for nineteenth